An Advanced Course Of Instruction In Chemical Principles (Revised Edition, 1922, Third Printing, 1929, Signed By Harold C. Urey

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 310 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Third Printing, 1929, Signed By Harold C. Urey). Slight Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Ownership Name And Signature Of Nobel Prize Winner Harold C. Urey On Front Free Endpaper, With Printed Donation Label From Urey To The Ucsd Library. Light Wear, But Re-Backed And Re-Tipped In Matching Green Cloth. Harold Clayton Urey (1893 -1981) Was An American Physical Chemist Whose Pioneering Work On Isotopes Earned Him The Nobel Prize In Chemistry In 1934 For The Discovery Of Deuterium.. He Was A Research Associate At Johns Hopkins University , And At Johns Hopkins Urey And Arthur Ruark Wrote Atoms, Quanta And Molecules (1930), One Of The First English Texts On Quantum Mechanics And Its Applications To Atomic And Molecular Systems He Became An Associate Professor Of Chemistry At Columbia University. In 1931, He Began Work With The Separation Of Isotopes That Resulted In The Discovery Of Deuterium. During World War Ii, Urey Turned His Knowledge Of Isotope Separation To The Problem Of Uranium Enrichment. He Headed The Group Located At Columbia University That Developed Isotope Separation Using Gaseous Diffusion.. After The War, Urey Became Professor Of Chemistry At The Institute For Nuclear Studies, And Later Ryerson Professor Of Chemistry At The University Of Chicago. Applying The Knowledge Gained With Hydrogen To Oxygen, He Realized That The Fractionation Between Carbonate And Water For Oxygen-18 And Oxygen-16 Would Decrease By A Factor Of 1.04 Between 0 And 25 °C (32 And 77 °F). The Ratio Of The Isotopes Could Then Be Used To Determine Average Temperatures, Assuming That The Measurement Equipment Was Sufficiently Sensitive. The Team Included His Colleague Ralph Buchsbaum. Examination Of A 100-Million-Year-Old Belemnite Then Indicated The Summer And Winter Temperatures That It Had Lived Through Over A Period Of Four Years. For This Pioneering Paleoclimatic Research, Urey Was Awarded The Arthur L. Day Medal By The Geological Society Of America, And The Goldschmidt Medal Of The Geochemical Society. Later, Urey Speculated That The Early Terrestrial Atmosphere Was Composed Of Ammonia, Methane, And Hydrogen. One Of His Chicago Graduate Students Was Stanley L. Miller, Who Showed In The Miller-Urey Experiment That, If Such A Mixture Were Exposed To Electric Sparks And Water, It Can Interact To Produce Amino Acids, Commonly Considered The Building Blocks Of Life. Work With Isotopes Of Oxygen Led To Pioneering The New Field Of Paleoclimatic Research. In 1958, He Accepted A Post As A Professor At Large At The New University Of California, San Diego (Ucsd), Where He Helped Create The Science Faculty. Apart From His Nobel Prize, He Also Won The Franklin Medal In 1943, The J. Lawrence Smith Medal In 1962, The Gold Medal Of The Royal Astronomical Society In 1966, The Golden Plate Award Of The American Academy Of Achievement In 1966, And The Priestley Medal Of The American Chemical Society In 1973. In 1964 He Received The National Medal Of Science.[ He Became A Fellow Of The Royal Society In 1947. Named After Him Are Lunar Impact Crater Urey, Asteroid 4716 Urey, And The H. C. Urey Prize, Awarded For Achievement In Planetary Sciences By The American Astronomical Society. The Harold C. Urey Middle School In Walkerton, Indiana, Is Also Named For Him,[ As Is Urey Hall, The Chemistry Building At Revelle College, Ucsd, In La Jolla And The Harold C. Urey Lecture Hall At The University Of Montana. Ucsd Has Also Established A Harold C. Urey Chair Whose First Holder Is James Arnold.